MILAN FASHION WEEK SPRING/SUMMER 2026: DAY 5

editors ELIANA CASA, MAREK BARTEK, MARIA MOTA and MARIE-PAULINE CESARI

DOLCE & GABBANA
review by MAREK BARTEK

all images DOLCE & GABBANA via vogue.com

You’ll probably read this line a million times, but I just couldn’t help myself: Today, the devil wore Dolce & Gabbana. In one of the most cinematic fashion week moments in recent memory, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci arrived dressed as Miranda Priestly and Nigel Kipling from The Devil Wears Prada. With the sequel already in production, their runway cameo couldn’t have been better timed. Simone Ashley, part of the new cast, watched from the second row. And when Streep turned her head to greet Anna Wintour across the runway (the real Miranda) fashion met fiction in a flashbulb-perfect collision.

Against that backdrop, Dolce & Gabbana staged a pajama party. It picked up where the men’s show in June left off, when the designers declared a taste for “no-fashion fashion… something more individual, more spontaneous.” After that presentation, Dolce noted, women were demanding pajamas of their own. Tonight, their wish was granted.

But of course, this being D&G, the pajamas were anything but plain. Striped cotton was embroidered with tiny flowers, traced with clusters of crystals, or styled over lacy black lingerie. Some looks swapped pj bottoms for sheer stockings, a wink to the house’s late ’80s shows, while others were topped with blouson bombers or brocade jackets “like a memory,” as Dolce put it.

For evening, cotton stripes gave way to black chiffon, often paired with the designers’ signature tuxedo jackets. Some models wore towering satin sandals, others fuzzy slippers. “This new generation doesn’t dress with too much styling,” Dolce said backstage. If Priestly turns up at Runway in pajamas next season, we’ll know why.